"The corporate press is factual but not truthful" - Michael Malice @npub18l8w...nrk6
Narratives aren't always truth. Always consider the incentives:
LLMs are powerful tools and they are making many things more efficient, especially learning and coding. However, layoffs are simply economic decisions, usually to correct for a previous decision that didn't work out, which is the driver behind these 16k Amazon layoffs.
As a former Amazon employee and someone who has worked at, or with, many enterprise companies, there are often a LOT of middle managers who offer no value to these organizations' productivity. These jobs were always a drag on the organization, whether "AI" exists or not.
Cal Newport
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